Yesterday,
Senator
Adam
Schiff
put
a
hold
on
the
nomination
of
acting
US
Attorney
for
DC
Ed
Martin
to
hold
the
position
personally.
And
the
reason
was
…
allll
the
reasons.
“For
the
past
nine
weeks,
Ed
Martin
has
consistently
undermined
the
independence
and
abused
the
power
of
the
U.S.
Attorney’s
office
in
DC
–
openly
threatening
and
intimidating
political
opponents,
dismissing
charges
against
his
own
clients,
firing
public
servants
for
their
roles
in
legitimate
investigations,
and
using
his
office
as
a
cudgel
to
chill
dissent
and
free
speech,”
Schiff
said
in
a
statement
announcing
the
hold.
Martin,
a
former
“Stop
the
Steal”
protester
who
never
prosecuted
a
case
before
being
tapped
to
lead
the
biggest
prosecutors
shop
in
the
country,
keeps
inventing
new
ways
to
be
bad
at
his
job.
Whether
he’s
menacing
Georgetown
University
for
doing
THE
DEI,
or
sending
harassing
notes
to
congressmen
for
mean
words,
or
vowing
to
protect
Elon
Musk
from
unethical
meanies,
or
getting
laughed
out
of
the
room
by
a
federal
magistrate
for
trying
to
get
a
warrant
without
probable
cause,
he’s
a
maverick
of
batshittery.
In
the
past
month,
he
came
up
with
three
novel
ways
to
abuse
his
office!
First,
he’s
got
a
spiffy
new
plan
to
withhold
police
misconduct
reports
from
courts.
In
a
publicly
posted
letter
to
“Dear
Blue,”
he
announced
that
he
is
“rewriting
our
policy
for
our
Lewis
List”
to
“stand
up
in
court
against
the
‘public
defender
service’
(PDS)
and
anyone
who
maligns
our
officers
for
sport
or
advantage
unfairly.”
As
the
Washington
Post
reported,
this
is
a
reference
to
the
“Lewis
List”
of
cops
who
are
under
investigation
or
have
been
found
liable
for
misconduct.
The
list
is
functionally
a
“Do
Not
Call”
list,
since
the
misconduct
or
allegations
must
be
disclosed
for
impeachment
purposes
under
Brady,
as
well
as
a
1979
DC
Circuit
ruling.
But
Ed
Martin
seems
to
think
that
all
that
disclosure
stuff
is
optional.
(Or
maybe
he’s
never
heard
of
it.)
“USAO
will
no
longer
allow
judges
or
others
to
gratuitously
damage
your
careers
because
of
the
outsized
impact
of
inexact
characterizations,”
he
blustered,
ending
with
a
promise
to
“DEFEND
THE
POLICE.
That’s
what
this
USAO
will
do.”
Then
the
president
put
out
the
all-call
for
some
more
outside
the
box
legal
thinking.
Martin,
who
seems
to
think
that
his
job
is
mostly
about
sending
mean
letters,
hopped
to
it.
According
to
the
New
York
Times,
he’s
been
sending
queries
to
Bidenworld
figures
demanding
details
about
pardons
issued
during
the
presidential
transition
period.
This
is
part
of
a
concerted
effort
to
attack
the
pardons
on
the
theory
that
President
Biden
was
too
checked
out
and/or
signed
them
by
autopen.
And
then
Monday,
he
tweeted
out
a
promise
to
investigate
Rep.
Jasmine
Crockett,
a
firebrand
Democrat
from
Texas,
who
dared
to
push
a
right-wing
reporter’s
phone
out
of
her
face.
What
a
cool
and
fun
way
for
the
acting
US
Attorney
for
DC
to
learn
about
the
Speech
or
Debate
Clause!
Let’s
go
now
to
Senator
Schiff
for
comment:
He
is
unfit
to
serve
as
a
lawyer,
let
alone
one
with
the
resources
–
and
cover
from
the
Senate
–
to
further
twist
the
power
of
the
law
and
law
enforcement
to
go
after
Americans
who
stand
up
for
the
rule
of
law
and
for
our
democracy.
With
all
of
the
power
I
am
afforded
as
a
United
States
Senator,
I
intend
to
place
a
hold
on
his
nomination
and
block
attempts
to
jam
through
his
appointment
at
every
stage.
Ooooh,
he’s
going
to
get
such
a
nasty
letter
…
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.